The Evergreen State College Top Questions

There is so much to brag about! Evergreen is so environmentally friendly and yet still is always trying to become more self-sustaining. The students and professors are so enthusiastic about what they're doing...everyone wants to help everyone else succeed. But most of all, as a science student, Evergreen provides amazing opportunities that many graduate students don't even recieve, from working on real research, to becoming familiar with professionals in the field, to taking trips to national conferences.

The small class sizes, my teachers, and my learning enviornment. In addition, i usualy explain the evaluation process, and how it is often more challenging to get an outstanding eval than it is to recieve an A letter grade.

If they are attending college elsewhere I usaully brag about the grading system and the lack of prerequisits. Both of these features give you the chance to explore and improve on a personal level.

My friends from high-school tease me a bit for going to college here, and call me a hippie (which I am not, they don't even know what that means). They think it's a stoner school where you can get away with anything; well you can't. You can go to any other college, get a C- in a class and still receive all your credit. If an Evergreen student does C- quality work, it's totally embarassing! Not only do you not GET all your credit, but you get an essay from your professer all about it.

the environment and the classes aswell as the campus and off campus people

I talk about how unique it is, and how unique the teaching style is. We do not have seperate classes, we have full enganging programs at The Evergreen State College that allow for full-emersion in thier chosen program. We have exceptional and well-known faculty, especially for the environmental science feilds.

Diversity, ability to customize the education.

That this school is amazing for its integrative teaching styles! We take only one class fulltime for 16 credits and will learn whatever the class subject is from a vast span of angles and fields of study. There is no place like evergreen if you love to learn.

Intergraded programs are a great way to learn, the fact that there are no grades but evaluations, and your transcripts are just a long story of your college experience. The openess and passion in all around campus, Love for community and sustainability. Great Ganja!

That we're really progressive and the focus isn't on grades, or majors, or meaningless things like that. What's important here is an intense passion and desire to learn for the sake of learning and making a genuine difference in the world around us. Plus, there isn't a greek life, and our mascot is a geoduck.